$Id: ChangeLog.old,v 1.1.1.1 2003-03-30 18:55:36 al-guest Exp $

Log of changes made to Minicom.

Until 1996

Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl

                        miquels@drinkel.ow.org

                        miquels@xs4all.nl

                        miquels@htsa.hva.nl

                        (In preferred order, one of these should work!)

Since 1997

Jukka Lahtinen, walker@clinet.fi

                walker@megabaud.fi

See the file 'AUTHORS' for a full list of current developers.

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November 1999

        - released 1.83

September 1999

        - added 'moVe' command to the dial directory to move directory

        entries up/down on the list

August 1999

        - support for DTE speed 230400 bps added

June 1999

        - Korean translations added (Kim soyoung <nexti@chollian.net>)

        - lock file creation moved to before opening the serial port

        - flag %f added to the upload/download protocol program command

        lines to allow passing the port file descriptor to c-kermit

        (mauro <smcsd@his.it>)

May 1999

        - changed the command line option -d to accept multiple comma-

        separated entries as the parameter

        - a fix for the timeout command in runscript

        (Bulent Murtezaoglu <bm@acm.org>)

April 1999

        - fixed possible overflows when inputting long strings in

        manual dial and "find entry" windows in the dial dir

        - added options for the logfile name and which events to log.

        Now you can also disable logging by deleting the filename.

        - added multiline untag option to untag all phonedir entries

        with the same name when one of them answers

        (Vangelis Rokas, valis@acrogate.ath.forthnet.gr)

        - FSF address fixed in the Copyright file

        - xminicom script fixed for Debian (miquels@cistron.nl)

        - newline delay option added in the terminal settings

        (miquels@cistron.nl)

February 1999

        - released 1.82.1

January 1999

        - the mailing list address changed, so because it is mentioned in

        the 'developers' file, a new packet was considered necessary

        although there are no big changes after 1.82

        - the program doesn't any more unnecessarily remind you of the need

        to save config and restart before the history buffer size change

        takes effect, if you started with -s option and didn't change it

        during THAT session.

November 1998

        - option to show line speed on the status line (instead of DTE speed)

September 1998

        - Polish (pl) translations by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz

        (misiek@pld.org.pl)

        - released 1.82

August 1998

        - some fixes for 'half-character' display troubles and formatted

        output with multibyte character languages such as Japanese. (kubota)

        - default value for control key changed back to ^A from Escape(meta)

        - added notations \u for username and \p for password in the

        macro strings. If the \ character is needed, it must be keyed in

        double (as \\).

        - the included conversion tables in the tables directory have been

        renamed from .mc* to mc.*

        - citation facility added to the scrollback buffer, and a bug in

        the history search fixed (kubota)

        - French (fr) translations by Gaël Quéri (gqueri@mail.dotcom.fr)

July 1998

        - command line option "-C filename" added to start capturing at

        program startup (kubota@debian.or.jp)

        - the character conversion tables are now also used when writing the

        capture file, unless you unset the capture convert option

        - if you try dialing from the dial directory while you are online,

        you'll get an error message (if you have the DCD setting on)

        - added command line option "-S script" to run the named script at

        program startup (before dialing the entry you may have specified

        with the -d option)

        - added log command to runscript. Now you can write text from

        your scripts with the command "log this is the log entry"

        - y2k fix: the date is written in the phone directory and the log file

        with 4 numbers in the year

        - Japanese translations by Tomohiro Kubota (kubota@debian.or.jp)

        - fixed a minor bug that the security fixes for 1.81.1 had caused:

        the file browser didn't always get some strings properly initialized,

        so the directory name at the top of the browser window wasn't shown

        correctly and neither did the first directory change work right

        - changed the function name 'tell' to 'mc_tell' to avoid conflict with

        a system function on some systems

June 1998

        - Added call duration to the "Gone offline" log message.

        - If the program reads an old version of the dialing directory

        (one with shorter entry length than the current version), it backs

        up the old one, with the entry length added as a suffix to the

        name.

        - fix for sig11 when the statusline is not used (vlk@st.simbirsk.su)

May 1998

        Applied a patch by Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) to avoid

        string overflows

        Released 1.81.1

April 1998

        Replaced the filename selection window with a better one written by

        Jim Seymour

        Changed the dialing function to start searching for dial tags from

        the highlighted entry, instead of the beginning of the list, when

        the highlighted one is not tagged. So that now, if entries 1, 2 and 5

        are tagged, and the highlight cursor is on entry number 3, the program

        dials entry 5 first, not entry 1.

        Some fixes to the chartab.h table

        Released 1.81

February-March, 1998

        Merged changes made by robotti@erols.com (Kent Robotti) to his

        version 1.78-s.

        Added and enhanced the filename selection window written by

        Hans Georg Keller (WINNIE@hanse.antar.com).

        Released 1.79

        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@conectiva.com.br) internationalized

        the program and translated the strings to Brazilian Portuguese.

        Jukka did the Finnish translations.

        Released 1.80.1

        Added multiple device support by Jim Seymour

        (jseymour@jimsun.LinxNet.com)

        Fixed some documentation and sent another packet of 1.80.1 to

        the world..

January, 1998

        Fixed a memory freeing bug when closing the history window

        (thanks to dickey@clark.net)

        Added last login date & time to the dialing window

        Patchlevel 1.78.2

November, 1997

        Released 1.78

October, 1997

        Changed the DTE speed from int to long. Now it should also work on

        modems faster than 32768 bps even if your compiler uses 16-bit int.

        Added some patches that Miquel had made during the last year.

September, 1997

        Added user-configurable character conversion tables to the Screen

        and keyboard menu. Conversion tables .mciso, .mcpc8 and .mcsf7

        (later renamed mc.*) included in the main directory for no

        conversion, pc8 and sf7 character sets, respectively.

        Environment variable TERMLIN for runscript to tell the actual terminal

        lines (LINES - 1 if you use the status line, same as LINES if you

        don't)

        Added logging of sz/rz file transfers.

        Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the wrong login script to run.

        Miquel said he was too busy to go on with minicom.

June, 1997

        Added logging of connects and disconnects to $HOME/minicom.log,

        added the last login time & date and login count to the phone dir

        Made the DTR drop time adjustable, because my modem needs DTR

        to be down more than just 1 second before it drops the carrier.

Spring 1997

        Jukka Lahtinen, walker@clinet.fi

                        walker@megabaud.fi

        saw that Minicom was a good program, but lacked character conversion

        tables and a logfile, so decided to work on them myself..

June, 1996

        Added some minor patches. Released 1.75.

March, 1996.

        Added ascii-xfr

        Added patch from "T.E.Dickey" <dickey@clark.net> color initialization

        Added patches for FreeBSD

Januari, 1996

        Fixed rwconf.c. Added drop_all_privs(). Released minicom 1.74.

Januari, 1996

        Fixed security hole in rwconf.c. Made debian package. 1.73-1.

September, 1995

        Added some patches for Minix back in. The "real ANSI" ACK compiler

        can't deduce prototypes from K&R declarations, but I'm not

        going to add 100 prototypes for one stupid compiler.

        Added -D_DCDFLOW for systems that have to have hardware

        handshaking turned off when DCD is low (FreeBSD, SunOS).

August, 1995

        Rewrote terminal emulation (numerical arguments) a bit to be

        more generic. Put in some of the SunOS patches (DTR handling).

Juli, 1995

        Fixed termcap a bit. Added terminal type to dialdir. Added "-p"

        flag. Fixed null arguments in escape sequences (for CompuServe).

May, 1995

        Added :am: to linux termcap entry. Added changes for variable

        history size buffer (Mark Rejhon <mdrejhon@magi.com>). Patches

        for DG/UX (Dario_Ballabio@milano.europe.dg.com). Fixed color

        save problem. Added a setuid() here and there. Garbled .dialdir

        files are no longer deleted. '-m and -M flags. Only write

        .dialdir when changed. Version 1.71.

Februari, 1995

        Added complete termcap files into the termcap subdirectory.

        Official release of 1.70 since 1.69 has proved itself stable.

Januari, 1995

        Fixed ALT key, now listen to either 8th bit or ESC, not both.

        Deleted all Minix stuff, including the Minix terminal emul.

        Minicom is so big now, it won't compile on Minix or Coh3 anyway.

        Added PD-zmodem "lszrz0.12a" to the minicom distribution.

November, 1994

        Complete VT102 emulation (tested with vttest). Ported to SCO.

        Runscript fixes. Made minicom drop root privs whenever possible.

        Minicom can send NUL (\0 or ^@) characters now.

October, 1994

        Added the customizable colors and macro patches. Support for

        terminals with a status line. Fixed bug in ANSI emulation

        (instead of ANSI emulated VT100, hmm). Support for alternate

        character set if termcap provides it. Vt100 insert mode. Bug fixes.

Februari, 1994.

        Got rid of bugs due to the double level of buffering in wkeys.c

        Added auto check for Meta-key mode on the console (ESC-X, etc).

        Added vt100 line character set emulation. Added dial-a-list.

        Zmodem auto-download.

Januari, 1994.

        Got report that after up/download RTS sometimes is low. Enabled

        it specifically in sysdep1.c - hope it helps? Wrote a manual page

        for runscript - finally! Fixed a few bugs in runscript - now it

        even works :-).

December, 1993.

        Fixed bug in dialing directory. Made minicom screen-size aware in

        more places. Online time keeps running during scripts and up/down

        load. Fixed resize code (you cannow resize minicom in an xterm).

        Changed version number to 1.60 - note the omission of the letter.

November, 1993.

        Fixed bug in ANSI emulation (reset ESC-[m would not set colors to

        white on black). Added 'current' speed in dial menu.

October, 1993.

        Added local echo and multiple dial strings, both can be set

        in the dialing directory. Changed the wgets() function to

        allow longer lines to be editted (now scrolls).

        Added a scroll back buffer (yeah!).

        Fixed bug in m_dtrtoggle: dtr never got set high again.. How

        could this ever have worked?? Put it up for ftp as version 1.5b.

August, 1993.

        Changed minicom to use the select() system call, if present.

        The keyserv process is no longer needed for such systems.

        Fixed some bugs in the vt100 emulation (still not complete,

        and never will be..) so that it does not crash anymore.

        Fixed other bugs. Minicom should be pretty stable now.

        'Modulized' the window.c and vt100.c, so that they can be

        used for some other project (can you say: ANSI-BBS?).

        Version number bumped up to 1.5.

April, 1993.

        Put a beta version of minicom 1.4 up for ftp. Changes made

        _after_ this are:

        Corrected documentation for the new configuration with

        Makefile and config.h. Changed internals of vt100.c and

        window.c so that window.c now handles the translation of

        IBM characters to normal characters, if needed. Can use IBM

        characters in windows now (status line, help window).

March, 1993.

        Been working on new version of minicom that does not use the

        keyserv process on systems with select, has sz/rz builtin,

        has new configuration files and so on. However, this is a

        _big_ project. So I decided to give the 'old' minicom 1.3.2

        a revision because people have been complaining about bugs some

        time. This revision is only tested under Linux and Minix: be warned.

Juli, 1992.

        Got a 386, so installed Linux. Of course, the first thing to do

        (after getting X up :-) was to work on minicom. Now ISIG is on

        when running up/download protocols and runscript, so that you

        can interrupt them. Removed flushing from ipc.c, now the bug with

        windows not getting deleted is solved. Added nice sound effect

        for Linux when connected and when up/download is ready.

        Removed bugs with scroll regions in both vt100.c and window.c.

        ALT key now works under Linux.

Sun, Jun 21 1992

        Posted diffs for 1.3 -> 1.3.2

- June, 1992.

        Posted version 1.3 to comp.os.minix.

        Did not seem to work under Linux. Added ~NOECHONL to routines

        in sysdep1.c. Added special Linux case hard coded escape

        sequence for color. Found bug in window.c:wscroll. In full

        screen mode insert line / delete line did not work OK.

        Found bug in window.c:wdelchar. Character under the cursor

        was not correctly deleted. Found bug in keyserv: when running

        an external command (up/download, runscript) and ^A or some

        ALT combination was pressed, keyserv would send too many

        ACK signals back so that minicom would be killed. Now call

        m_flush(0) in ipc.c:keyserv before re-starting keyserv.

        (Posix signal interface could solve this ; however, a lot of

        systems don't have that including Minix 1.5).

        Changed DCD handling ; minicom first tried to find out for

        itself it the OS and modem supported the DCD line. Now it's

        a configuration option in "modem and dialing".

        Found bug in keyserv.c for Coherent: used #ifdef COHERENT

        instead of _COHERENT.

- Februari, 1992.

        Posted Minix version 1.2 to comp.os.minix. Got some feedback ;

        it even ran under Coherent. Changed keyserv to communicate

        with minicom through pipes. Changed some menu's and command

        line interface. Ported it to Sysv and Linux. Changed the

        configuration file to ASCII. Added redialing.

- Somewhere in middle 1991

        Made first version of Minicom, based on a not-yet-finished

        window library of Fred van Kempen. Used Non blocking IO

        patches to the kernel for asynchronous IO. Used lots of

        CPU time. Ran under my version of Minix only.

        Decided later to write my own window routines.

        Did away with non blocking IO, started to use a separate

        process for the IO from keyboard to modem.

        Added color routines, perfected communication between

        "keyserv" and minicom.

        Got it running under BSD.